8 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Thursday, Dec. 21, 1950
Film Paid to Wed Actress Arlene Dahl and Lex Barker
(above), motion picture Tarzan, are shown in Hollywood as
they revealed their engagement. They have been seen to
gether regularly for the past year. It will be the first mar
riage for Miss Dahl, who is 24, and second for Barker, 32.
(AP Wirephoto)
U. S. Finds Itself in Strange
Situation with Sec. Acheson
By JAMES MARLOW
Washington, Dec. 21 W At a most critical moment, this coun
try finds itself In one of the strangest situations in its history.
Its secretary of state, Dean Acheson, has been discredited by a
large part of congress, the republicans
But at this instant he is in Europe, trying to plan with this
country's western allies for a de-f
lense against Russia.
For them to take a spirited
stand against Russia, those allies
must feel this country stands
solidly behind the plans being
made.
Talking with Acheson, they
must wonder: How can they be
sure congress will back up any
thing he says?
Acheson flew to Brussels from
here Sunday to talk over the
plans with the members of the
Atlantic pact.
On Friday, while he was pre
paring for the trip, the republi
cans in congress pulled the rug
from under him by overwhelm
ingly voting no confidence In
him.
(The republicans had started
to do this about a week ago but
Governor Dewey of New York,
titular head of the party, stop
ped them cold for a few days by
telling them this was no time
for a move like that.
(The republicans apparently
thought this one over and then
decided to go ahead, Ignoring
Dewey.)
This country's Atlantic pact
partners have been dawdling
along with their defenses. Ache
son is supposed to spur them in
to action and get things going, in
the belief there's no time to lose.
Before Acheson boarded his
plane Sunday, President Tru
man issued a statement which
said he had "complete confi
denco" in Acheson. Ho has stood
solidly behind Acheson, and
still is backing him, so far as is
known.
(The no confidence vote was
only the climax to many months
of republican attacks onAchcson.
But for that matter, the demo
crats, or rather most of them,
haven't defended him very
strongly and some not at all.)
There seem to be two schools
of thought on what may lie
ahead.:
1. That Acheson may resign
when he comes back, thus let
ting Mr. Truman appoint an
other secretary more acceptable
to the republicans, since Mr.
Truman needs republican back
ing on major foreign policy
moves in this crisis period,
2. That Mr. Truman may get
his dander up to such a point
that he won't let Acheson go at
nil.
But if Acheson doesn t go, then
Washington is going to see some
of its most embarrissing situa
tions in years. This is why:
Acheson has to deal a lot with
congress, face to face, by trot
ting up to the capitol to explain
to congressional committees why
his state department has done
thus nnd so or what the govern
ment s policy is on this or that
And republicans sit on all
those committees, always just
Numbers by the primary
grades were: "Deck the Halls
by a chorus; "welcome, a poem
by Mary Jansen; "Away in a
Manger," the chorus; "unnst
mas," Roberta Smalley, Casey
Jones, Mary Lee Harner, Nor
man West, Joe Cunningham,
Jon Remy, Mary Fisher, Jimmy
Armstrong and Nancy Welty;
Christmas Is Coming," Eileen
Weigert, Andrew Stortroen, Lin
da Miklia, Jackie Oliver, Donnie
Schaberg, Virginia Forse, Bobby
Bowder and Jimmy Bryan; and
the closing number "We Wish
You a Merry Christmas."
Numbers by the intermediate
grades: Piano solo, Mrs. Keith
Gwynn; "O Little Town of Beth
lehem," the processional by the
chorus;" "Angels From the
Realms of Glory," fifth grade
chorus; O Holy Night," fourth
grade chorus; "The First Noel,'
chorus; "It Came Upon a Mid
night Clear," sixth grade chorus
We Three Kings, chorus with
solo parts by Gary Frame, Gary
Isom and Glenn Welliver; piano
solo, Mrs. Gwynn; "Silent
Night," chorus; "Hark the Her
ald Angels Sing," chorus; "O
Come All Ye Faithful," the re
cessional by the chorus.
The pantomime was by the in
termediate pupils; Mary was
Yvonne Ellis; Joseph, Wayne
Welty; kings, Bobby Douglas,
Gerald Guman and Tommy Se
Rine; shepherds, Donald Straw,
Charles Alderman, Jerry Fetsch,
slightly outnumbered by the
democrats who have a majority
on each committee because they
have a majority in congress.
So, if he remains, Acheson
will have to explain his reasons
and plans across a table to re
publicans who already have said
they lack confidence in him.
And it seems unlikely, no mat
ter what Acheson does from now
on, that the republicans can ever
reverse their stand and pat him
on the back.
It may be supposed that If Mr.
Truman tries to pacify the re
publicans, whose backing he
needs in foreign affairs, and lets
Acheson go, that the republi
cans then will have an obliga
tion to back up Acheson s successor.
Not necessarily so. True, the
senate has to approve a secre
tary of state. But this is merely
an expression of confidence that
man ought to be able to do a
good job.
The republicans will have to
lake part in that vote. But any
time thereafter they're free to
tee off on him If they don't like
the job he docs.
Acheson himself had to get
senate approval when he took
office 23 months ago.
Gates A special meeting of
the voters of school district No.
21J has been called by the
board of school directors for the
purpose of electing a director to
fill the vacancy left on the board
by the resignation of Oswald
Hirte. The meeting will be held
in the basement of the local
high school Friday evening, De
cember 22, at 8 o clock.
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East Salem's Swegle School
Gives Christmas Program
East Salem In the auditorium of Swegle school before an audi
pnee of Darents and friends which filled the room until there was
little standing room left, the pupils and teachers of the school
presented their annual school program. It was arranged in three
narts. f
Marvin Johnson, Lloyd Johnson,
Larry Jayne and John Lee; an
gels, Carolyn Alsman, Dons
Cobb, Donna Fetch, Marilyn
Towery, Jackie Smalley, Doro
thy Vaughn and Esther Utter
back. Stage manager was Lloyd
Johnson.
The Christmas treats were
given to the school children in
their room and the PTA pre
sented the pre-school children in
the audience with their sacks.
A Christmas play entitled
The Meaning of Christmas"
will be preserved by the chil
dren who attend the Swegle
Sunday school on Friday night
in the school auditorium at 7:30.
Serving on the committee for its
preparation are Mrs. Harold Ol
son, Mrs. Harold Alderman and
Mrs. Albert P. Patz.
Christmas Programs
Scheduled at Mill City
Mill City Grade schools will
present the Christmas program
Thursday evening, Dec. 21 at 8
o'clock in the grade school gym
nasium. The upper grades will
stage a play entitled, "Christmas
Eve in Hillside Village , a can
tata-drama under the direction
of teachers: Mr. Hollyman, Mrs.
Rogers, Mr. Schunk. Miss Smith
plays all the accompaniments for
the program. The choir is also
made up of the upper grades,
fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth.
The lower grades, under the
direction of Mrs. Sletto, Miss
Henry, Mrs. Loucks and Mrs.
Schunk, will present, on the
same night, a play entitled,
Merry Christmas to All". There
are also choral groups in the
lower grade activities. The pro
gram during the evening will in
clude most of the students in the
grade school.
Longer Store Hours
Albany Albany retail mer
chants will remain open until 9
p.m. Thursday and Friday eve
nings in accordance with
previously adopted plans to
accommodate evening Christmas
shoppers. The stores will close
at their regular hours Saturday.
Juvenile Night Club
Broken Up by Police
Portland, Dec. 21 U.R)port
land police have broken up a
juvenile "nightclub" in an un
ocupied Portland home.
Police said Mrs. Frances
Green of Tillamook was sum
moned after her house was
found open and littered with
empty beer bottles.
Officers said at one time they
found five teen-age girls inside.
Later three teen-age boys and
two more young girls appeared
on the scene.
One youth, 21-year-old Robert
Voorhees of Rhododendron, was
jailed on a trespassing charge.
Mrs. Green said she had not
lived in the house for several
months.
School Program Set
Sunnyside Pupils of the
Sunnyside school will present
their annual Christmas program
Friday evening, Dec. 22, at 8
o'clock.1
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Book by Gibbs Interesting
Story of Lost Men and Ships
By BEN MAXWELL
Bones of the ship and bones of the men who sailed them is the
these of "Pacific Graveyard," a James A. Gibbs, Jr., book of out
standing interest and merit lately sponsored by the Oregon His
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Binfords & Mort of Portland are publishers of this small, well-
printed volume in an atractive'
format.
As the name implies Pacific
Graveyard is a log book of
disaster about ships of all class
es and nations, lost long ago or
recently, at or near the mouth
of the Columbia river.
More significantly the subject
is present as history and not as
romance by a writer who has
had seafaring experience. Gibbs
is now assistant editor of Seat
tle's Marine Digest, and recent
ly was elected president of the
Puget Sound Maritime Histori
cal society.
And it may be added as an
item of local interest that James
A. Gibbs is a descendant of A.
C. Gibbs who was Oregon's Civil
war governor.
In his slight but comprehen
sive volume of 173 pages Gibbs
enumerated some 160 vessels lost
in the Pacific graveyard of his
selection. Concerning many he
tells an interesting and dramatic
story about stays missed while
crossing the bar, about anchors
dragging when storm and tide
defied human effort to save the
ship.
There lies the Lammerlaw,
stranded at Leadbetter point
when her master mistook the en
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the Columbia river bar; and An
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hands near the entrance to the
Columbia during a raging gale,
December 11, 1900, and the Lu-
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after disaster off Tillamook head
was a blinded, whinning dog.
Details about these and many
other disasters are precisely and
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Not since Lewis and Dryden's
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the Pacific Northwest" was pub
lished in 1895 has a book com
parable to Pacific Graveyard ap
peared to enhance the marine
history of this coast. Obviously,
Gibbs has labored long and in
dustriously collecting forgotten
information from obscure
sources. Quite as obviously he
has re-written, condensed and
classified his material into an
alphabetical chronicle of mara
time misfortunes both large and
small.
Appropriately, it is called Pa
cific Graveyard.
Dug Finds Shelter This stray dog found shelter from a
snowstorm by curling up in the straw used in the Nativity
scene set up on the Albert Lea, Minn., courthouse lawn as
part of the city's Christmas observance. (AP Wirephoto)
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